Sony Music Global Job Board
Vice President, Engineering (Content)
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About Sony Music Entertainment
At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.
Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.
Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.
Role Overview
Sony Music’s Product, Design, Engineering & Global Operations (PDEGO) team is seeking a Vice President of Engineering within our Content product team.
What You'll Do
- Set the overall technical vision and long-term strategy for the Content product engineering organization which includes client facing tools to create and manage music content.
- Lead, mentor, and scale the engineering team, including senior leaders, to ensure high performance and career growth.
- Drive technical excellence, operational maturity, and accountability for the systems underpinning our content products.
- Partner directly with executive leadership in Product, Design, and Global Operations to define and execute the product roadmap and business objectives.
- Oversee the architectural direction, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure for global operation.
- Champion a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and technical debt management across the organization.
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Who You Are
- Seeking 18+ years of progressive engineering experience, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles (Director/VP), including managing managers.
- Proven success in leading and scaling large, complex distributed systems and multi-product ecosystems.
- Deep expertise in modern software architecture, cloud technologies (AWS), and data infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake, Neo4j, Kafka).
- Experience driving organizational change, improving engineering practices, and delivering results in an agile environment.
- Demonstrated ability to engage with product management and executive stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical strategy.
- Experience with talent acquisition, performance management, and building diverse, high-performing teams.
Ideal Candidate
- A hands-on, senior leader who can dive into technical details while maintaining a strategic view of the Content domain.
- Track record of aligning technical roadmap with key business KPIs and driving measurable results.
- Experience with global scale, M&A technology integration, and managing the evolution of the SDLC in new technology environments (e.g., Generative AI).
- Can mobilize a multi-disciplinary organization around a unified technical and product vision.
- Establishes and enforces engineering excellence and architectural governance across multiple teams.
- Experience working in music is a big plus.
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What We Give You
- You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day.
- A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best.
- Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.
- The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next.
- We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break.
Equal Opportunities
As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. We employ, retain, promote, and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, or disability.
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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.
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